ALRIGHT

‘Alright?’ he said.
‘Alright,’ I said.
Double figures of floors later he said, ‘Cheers then,’ and I said, ‘Bye now.’
Through a corridor.
‘Evening,’ I said to the son of one of my neighbours as he stood with a friend waiting for the lift.
‘Alright?’ he said.
‘Alright,' I said.

Later I went to meet Daughter off the bus outside Debenhams. She was at the top of the subway steps when I got there.
‘Been waiting long?’ I said.
‘Just arrived,’ she said.
The two objects had been in one of the back corners of the lift on my way out were there on our way in.
‘What sort of person leaves a bone partially covered by a bib in the corner of the lift?’ I said.
‘I don’t know,’ she said, ‘but it’s disgusting...and unnecessary.’